How To Support Racial Justice and Diversity This Week In Louisville (6/29)
TUESDAY, June 30 Community Conversation with Sadiqa Reynolds Online Free | Noon-12:30 p.m. Sadiqa Reynolds has been at the vanguard of protesting for racial equality in Louisville for a long time. And she and the Louisville Urban League have been making differences in the community long before the protests began, including with this project: the…
Any doubt about the Booker-McGrath vote counts could resonate long past the primary
Voting for the Democratic nomination to face Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is over, but the election is not, because most ballots were mail-in absentees due to the pandemic and are still being counted. That means the campaigns aren’t over, either, and that could affect the general election. Wednesday afternoon, the campaign of state Rep.…
How To Support Racial Justice And Diversity This Weekend In Louisville (6/26)
FRIDAY, June 26 Final Freedom Friday Jefferson Square Park Free | 4:30 p.m. It’s the last weekend to participate in Freedom Friday, a weekly car and bike caravan that started as a protest to free those incarcerated in Kentucky jails and prisons during the pandemic and turned into a demonstration demanding justice for Breonna Taylor,…
Waterfront Wednesday has been canceled for 2020
The 2020 season of Waterfront Wednesday has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic but is expected to return in the spring of 2021. The decision to call off the series of free, monthly concerts on the Big Four Lawn “takes into account the current travel restrictions and challenges for national touring musical acts, in addition…
Visit these Black-owned restaurants in Louisville
Here are nearly 90 Black-owned restaurants in Louisville. Please give them your support! And, please let us know at leoweekly.com if you would like to suggest corrections, additions or deletions. Abyssinia, 554 S. Fifth St. Ace’s Slushie World, 1821 W. Broadway. Ada’s Kitchen & Catering, 214 W. Broadway. Addis Grill, 109 S. Fourth St. Adele’s…
Burgers and Bourbon — A Perfect Summer Match
It’s not merely alliteration. Beef and bourbon go very well together. Perhaps it has to do with the contrast of sweet whiskey notes with the savory meat. Whatever bourbon you choose should definitely be on the robust side, so avoid the 80-proof lightweights. Think of it as finding the robust red wine equivalent of bourbon,…
One juicy burger, hold the beef: 3 takes on making them with no meat
In the not-so-distant past, when a chef set out to make a vegetarian or vegan burger, the only choice was DIY. Now, there are choices, and area chefs are taking varied approaches to serving burgers that satisfy while at the same time mimicking a beef hamburger as reasonably as possible. Kristina Addington launched her V-Grits…
6 Louisville chefs reveal their secrets for the best burgers
Some days, you feel like a burger. Some days, you feel like a steak. But let’s make one thing perfectly clear: This is not a matter of better and best. The simple, honest burger in no way takes second place to the faux nobility of the tenderloin, rib eye, strip or porterhouse. Sometimes, when you’re…
On compassion and change: See someone, help someone
So, here’s something that happened recently in Old Louisville. I see a man on the sidewalk wandering around, sweating and messing with his shorts. I’m taking stuff in and out of the house, so I just continue on with my business. And then I see a new water bottle I was gonna donate, so I…
The Supreme court’s LGBTQ ruling leaves unfinished business for equality
The Supreme Court’s 6–3 decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, holding that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bars discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, was obviously a landmark moment in the fight for LGBTQ equality. For the first time, every person in the United States, no…
Savage Love: Blowing up
Q: I’m committed to my male partner, and he’s committed to me. (I’m a woman.) But we both understand we need to flirt and that we will both want to sleep with someone else at some point. We live together, we have a dog, and neither of us believes in marriage. We plan to purchase…
LuCretia’s Kitchen, as good as soul food gets
Support Black-owned restaurants and other Black-owned businesses, too! You’ve heard me yell this for quite a while. I often head west of Ninth Street for a good meal and a friendly welcome, and I urge you to do the same. Erasing that imaginary, unnecessary wall that cuts off Louisville’s West End from the rest of…
PAKG’s sophomore album addresses the battle within
The four-piece band PAKG uses emotionally-driven, versatile indie to cut to the core of the human condition. And, even though their new album Teddy was recorded in February, before the pandemic and social movements started to change the course of the world, the themes and concepts on the record reflect the personal struggles that tough…
Mixing business and politics: Restaurants promote racial justice
Darnell Ferguson had already decided that he was going to do it: plan a Unity March for Black people killed by police. But, when it came to promoting the event on social media pages for his restaurant, SuperChefs in The Highlands, he hesitated. “What are these people who don’t believe in Black Lives Matter who…
Thorns and Roses: The Worst, Best and Most Absurd (6/24)
‘Pressure’s gonna drop on you’ | Rose It is amazing what several weeks of protesting can do, and it is tragic that those protests had to come after even more Black people were killed by a warrior-mentality law enforcement. Yet, suddenly, the John B. Castleman statue is gone. The Jefferson Davis statue is gone. No-knock…
Photo set: A Juneteenth like no other
Juneteenth typically celebrates the emancipation of the last remaining African slaves in the United States, but this year’s was marked in Louisville by the killings of Breonna Taylor, David McAtee and George Floyd by law enforcement. About 200 people gathered June 19 in Jefferson Square Park for Juneteenth during an event hosted by the Roots101…
To get your votes, be geniune
This column is being printed as we await word of who won the Kentucky Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. Regardless of the nominee, the myth about the type of candidate Democrats need to run in Kentucky to win has been debunked: It’s not a moderate Democrat. It’s not even a progressive Democrat. We want candidates…
